Worst house ever?

"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36) 09/27/2013 at 14:25 • Filed to: None

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getchapopcorn > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:27

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The chain-linked fence does add a bit of class, though.

boostbeef > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:28

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it has a garage, so no, it's not the worst home ever.

Meatcoma > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:34

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It's glorious - so many hiding places.

And a toilet in the dining room? No more running to the bathroom during dinner.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:36

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But why does this exist?!

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:36

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It appears to have an electric stove, so it definitely is pretty bad.

MikeMeade > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:36

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You can't even get in to most of the house! Houses need exterior doors. Trust me, I'm an architect.

ZeroOrDie - Powered By MZR > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:37

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This is like every apartment layout I have ever seen. Im like why the fuck!? What the hell. The washer is in a closet in the family room!?

Hermann > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:38

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- Sorry, but I need to go to the bathroom. Can you tell me where it is?
- Oh, right. You exit the living room, and when you reach the end of the wall you turn a sharp left and in then crawl over the bed, go through the window, go past the door so you can open it, then when you're outside you turn left until you reach the garage door where there'll be a glass sliding door leading to the bathroom. The toilet is behind the shower. Or you can use that bucket over there if you want.

GreenN_Gold > boostbeef 09/27/2013 at 14:39

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Wanted to say the same.

POD > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 14:51

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Instantly thought of Transmission Line Speakers

bhardoin > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 15:14

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I want a chain link fence in my bedroom. Best clothes hanger ever.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 15:23

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The Troll is strong with this one.



61degrees.north > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 15:26

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boredom+visio=this

Thunder > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/27/2013 at 15:29

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Big post: TL;DR up front: Crazy apartment layout, followed by the story of the crazy neighbor and his popcorn and alcohol fueled car-flambe.

Somewhat reminds me of an apartment I once had.

Three bedroom. Entering into the little excuse for a foyer (pretty much a linoleum area), the dining room was to the right, the living/family room to the left, and the kitchen to the right front. Straight ahead into a hallway; bedroom to the left. Continue down said hallway, master bedroom to the left.

Here's where it gets weird. Door to the right into a small... umm... quarter-bath? It's just a sink, no shower, tub, or toilet. Past that sink is another door... into a bathroom with toilet and tub. Continue past that and through another door into another sink-room. Continue through that into the third bedroom.

Once you've entered the third bedroom from the three-part bathroom, you can exit by a door next to that bathroom, which is a long hallway back to the master bedroom. Halfway down that hallway is a side door to stairs down to the garage.

This was the setting for a chaotic evening while our house was under construction. I'd been making the drive every night, heading to our new home to put in some paint-based sweat equity. On this night, one week before closing on the house, my wife begged me not to go. So, I was hanging out in the third bedroom/office at 10 or 11 PM when I heard a crash of some sort.

Thinking that the some of the boxes holding most of our earthly possessions had collapsed onto our car in the garage, I sprinted down the stairs to find it pristine - no issue whatsoever. I shrugged and went back up the stairs to find that my wife had been awakened by the noise as well. I proceeded to the entrance (which is on the second floor BTW) and saw someone running across the parking lot towards our building. I hollered "what's going on?", and was told that the car was on fire in the garage.

I proceeded to grab my one-year-old son out of his crib, tell my wife to get out, and followed her down the stairs. By that point, the neighbor's car was out of the garage (which is located directly below our dining room); the right front corner of it was fully ablaze.

A moment of backstory: when that neighbor moved in below us, we would hear metal banging from below our master bedroom at random hours of the day and night. I went outside and tried to peer in at what crazy acts were going on in there, but to no avail. I would find out shortly.

It turned out that our neighbor was making popcorn, on the stove, using alcohol (not sure how, but that's what the word was). It caught fire, causing the sprinklers to go off; putting water on a grease fire makes a BIG grease fire. He then panicked, opened the nearest door, and threw the flaming pan... directly onto his car in his garage. Now, the car's on fire; he hit the garage door opener (which happily worked despite being in flames), and tried to start the car. It wouldn't start, so he put it in neutral and pushed it out of the garage. Conveniently, by this point someone was heading that way to stop it from continuing into the parked cars beyond his driveway.

I'll note here that the sprinklers in his garage did not go off, instead backing up and causing some rain in MY garage next door. The fire did, however, burn intensely enough and long enough to scorch some of my boxes and furniture stuffed in the garage.

Finally, about that metal banging from the bedroom. We finally got to learn that this deranged individual had, after a hurricane spawned a number of tornadoes in the area, decided to build himself a shelter. Picture, if you will, a homemade airstream trailer, constructed out of galvanized steel, and built over a bed. That's what he slept in.

Why couldn't he have just waited a week for all this? We would have been moved out by then and missed all the fun.

Otto > POD 09/27/2013 at 17:31

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What is this I don't even

Please, do explain. As you would to a mentally challenged person because I am not musics.

POD > Otto 09/27/2013 at 17:39

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Acoustic Transmission line enclusures are a way of tuning the speaker box to enhance the low frequency of the base driver (speaker). Most of them are ported (the box has a hole in it). They are tricky to design because you have to ensure that the sound coming out of the port in the box is in phase with the base driver. It a way of getting a lower flatter bass responce out of the same driver.

Done right, the bass driver is able to provide louder, cleaner bass, with less cone excusion (so the speaker is moving back and forth as far and not having to work as hard).

Otto > POD 09/28/2013 at 06:37

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I see, thank you for that.
There's a lot more to it than I thought.

POD > Otto 09/28/2013 at 08:22

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Your welcome! Speaker building is my other, other, hobby. I don't claim to be an expert, but it's fun.